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sylvania has been active in the enforcement of her pure food 

 law with results comparable to those reached elsewhere. 



While the astute Yankee no longer has recourse to wooden 

 nutmeg frauds, his fellow countrymen, in all sections, have 

 found more scientific, fraudulent, and vastly more lucrative 

 occupations. The New Hampshire state board of health has 

 pubhshed a bulletin, giving analyses of fifteen brands of dia- 

 betes flour, purporting to be made of gluten. The bulletin 

 shows there is no pure gluten flour to be had : and the exorbi- 

 tant price charged was about the only thing in which it differed 

 from common flour. Most of the vanilla extract now sold is 

 said to be made from coal tar. At the St. Louis fair, in the 

 agricultural building, might have been seen exhibits of the 

 state food and dairy commission of Minnesota, and those of 

 the Massachusetts board of health, showing the use of aniline 

 dyes, as used in foods and beverages. A handsome collection 

 of cloths was exhibited, which had been colored with soda 

 fountain syrups, tomato catsup, and other foods. These 

 poisonous dyes are another reprehensible feature of adul- 

 teration. 



In a milk crusade in Pennsylvania in 1903 only one town, 

 Milton, failed to reveal a violation of the dairy laws. The 

 New Jersey report of the chemical department, in 1903, showed 

 forty and eight tenths per cent of food adulteration, seventy 

 per cent of drugs, twenty nine and one tenth per cent mis- 

 cellaneous. The agricultural station of New Haven published 

 its report for 1902, from which is gleaned the following : Of 

 ninety four samples of catsup, eighty four per cent were color- 

 ed with coal tar dyes, and had chemical preservatives. Only 

 one fourth of the vanilla was pure, one eighth of the lemon 

 extract, nineteen per cent of jellies and jams. In 1903 in 

 Massachusetts, from an analysis of over six thousand samples 

 of milk, twenty eight per cent were adulterated; other food 

 articles had eighteen per cent of impurities. In 1902 a pure 

 food crusade was inaugurated, by swearing out warrants 

 against the Kansas city beef company, and others, the result 

 of an analysis of canned meats, showing sulphurous acid and 

 boric acid. 



About eighty per cent of all the whisky sold in the United 



